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is a third-generation
Sansei

Sansei is a Japanese language term used in countries in North America, South America and Australia to specify the children of children born to Japanese people in the new country....
 Japanese American
Japanese American

are Americans of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity....
, Eisner Award
Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, commonly shortened to the Eisner Award, is a prize given for creative achievement in American comic books....
-winning comic book creator.

Born in Kyoto
Kyoto

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, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, Sakai grew up in Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
 and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training center, th...
. He later attended the Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California. It is one of the leading art and design colleges in the world....
 in Pasadena
Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl Game American football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena
Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl Game American football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,...
.

He began his career by lettering comic book
Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
s (notably Groo the Wanderer
Groo the Wanderer

Groo the Wanderer is a fantasy/comedy comic book series written and drawn by Sergio Aragon?s, rewritten, coplotted and edited by Mark Evanier, lettered by Stan Sakai, and colored by Tom Luth....
 by Sergio Aragonés
Sergio Aragonés

Sergio Aragon?s Domenech is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer....
 and Mark Evanier
Mark Evanier

Mark Stephen Evanier is an United States comic book and television writer, particularly known for his humor work. Evanier is of ethnic Jewish heritage....
) and became famous with the creation of Usagi Yojimbo
Usagi Yojimbo

is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1984.Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period Japan , with anthropomorphism animals replacing humans, it features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who is partially based on the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi....
, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai
Samurai

is the term for the military nobility of Pre-industrial society Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character ? was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau....
 rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan.






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is a third-generation
Sansei

Sansei is a Japanese language term used in countries in North America, South America and Australia to specify the children of children born to Japanese people in the new country....
 Japanese American
Japanese American

are Americans of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity....
, Eisner Award
Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, commonly shortened to the Eisner Award, is a prize given for creative achievement in American comic books....
-winning comic book creator.

Born in Kyoto
Kyoto

Sorry, no overview for this topic
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, Sakai grew up in Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
 and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training center, th...
. He later attended the Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California. It is one of the leading art and design colleges in the world....
 in Pasadena
Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl Game American football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena
Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl Game American football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,...
.

He began his career by lettering comic book
Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
s (notably Groo the Wanderer
Groo the Wanderer

Groo the Wanderer is a fantasy/comedy comic book series written and drawn by Sergio Aragon?s, rewritten, coplotted and edited by Mark Evanier, lettered by Stan Sakai, and colored by Tom Luth....
 by Sergio Aragonés
Sergio Aragonés

Sergio Aragon?s Domenech is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer....
 and Mark Evanier
Mark Evanier

Mark Stephen Evanier is an United States comic book and television writer, particularly known for his humor work. Evanier is of ethnic Jewish heritage....
) and became famous with the creation of Usagi Yojimbo
Usagi Yojimbo

is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1984.Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period Japan , with anthropomorphism animals replacing humans, it features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who is partially based on the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi....
, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai
Samurai

is the term for the military nobility of Pre-industrial society Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character ? was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau....
 rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly-sole artist (Tom Luth
Tom Luth

Tom Luth is best known for his work as the colorist for the Sergio Aragon?s comic series, Groo the Wanderer. Luth's work has also appeared in a number of other comics and national periodicals, such as MAD Magazine....
 serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story "Broken Ritual" is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black and white version of the story "Return to Adachi Plain" that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paperback edition of Usagi Yojimbo). He also created a futuristic spinoff series Space Usagi
Usagi Yojimbo

is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1984.Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period Japan , with anthropomorphism animals replacing humans, it features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who is partially based on the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi....
. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959).

Other Work


Before Usagi Yojimbo, Sakai wrote and illustrated a comic series entitled The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy
The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy

The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy is a brief funny animal comic series by Stan Sakai that predates his better-known comic book Usagi Yojimbo....
. The characters first appeared in Albedo
Albedo Anthropomorphics

|image = Albedo 08.jpg|imagesize =|caption = Cover of Albedo Anthropomorphics featuring the magazine's feature character,...
 #1 in 1984.

Sakai wrote and illustrated the story "I'm Not In Springfield Anymore!" for Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #7 and illustrated the of Treehouse of Horror #6.

Sakai was the artist for the back-up feature in the trade paperback of Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails
Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails

Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails: The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero is a prequel to the Eisner Award-winning comic book Bone by Jeff Smith ....
.

Awards

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* 1990 Parents' Choice Award for "Skillful weaving of facts and legends into his work"
  • 1991 Inkpot Award
    Inkpot Award

    The Inkpot Award, bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International, is given to professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science fiction, and related pop-culture fields, who are guests of that organization's yearly List of multigenre conventions, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con....
     from Comic-Con International: San Diego for "Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Cartooning"
  • 1996 Eisner Award
    Eisner Award

    The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, commonly shortened to the Eisner Award, is a prize given for creative achievement in American comic books....
     for "Best Letterer" (Groo and Usagi Yojimbo)
  • 1996 Eisner Award for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" (Usagi Yojimbo)
  • 1999 Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story" (Usagi Yojimbo "Grasscutter")
  • 1999 Haxtur Award
    Haxtur Award

    The Haxtur Award is a Spanish award for comics published in Spain. It is awarded annually at the Sal?n Internacional del C?mic del Principado de Asturias ....
     for "Best Short Story [in Spain]" (Usagi Yojimbo "Noodles" [Spanish Edition])
  • 2000 Haxtur Award for "Best Script [in Spain]" (Usagi Yojimbo's "Grasscutter" [Spanish Edition])
  • 2001 Ursa Major Award for “Best Anthropomorphic Comic Book or Strip”
  • 2002 National Cartoonists Society Comic Book Division Award (Usagi yojimbo)
  • 2002 Ursa Major Award for “Best Anthropomorphic Comic Book or Strip”
  • 2003 Ursa Major Award for “Best Anthropomorphic Comic Book”
  • 2003 La Plumilla de Plata (Silver Inkpen Award) in Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
     for his lifetime achievements and contributions to comic books.
  • 2007 Harvey Award
    Harvey Award

    The Harvey Awards, named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman and coordinated by the publisher Fantagraphics are given for achievement in comic books....
     for "Best Letterer"


From 1993 through 2005, Stan Sakai has received twenty-one Eisner Award nominations. He has also been nominated for the Comics Buyer's Guide
Comics Buyer's Guide

Comics Buyer's Guide is the second longest-running periodical reporting on the comic book industry. Only the Dutch monthly Stripschrift, first published in February 1968, has been running longer....
 Award for Favorite Writer in 1999 and 2000.

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